If it walks like a payoff and talks like a payoff we need to call it what it is.

President Bush commuted Libby’s sentence and took away the legal pressure of looming jail time that would have… might have…oh, fuck it y’all know that motherfucker was gonna talk if he went to jail.

Look at him!

He ain't hard.

Cough.

A bitch can't help but imagine how it went down.

Cheney called Bush and kept it real…much like John Dean went in and met with Nixon in the Oval after the initial break it at the Watergate and told him it would take a million dollars to keep those participants quiet.

Cheney explained that Libby wouldn’t hold (he is so not hard) and would piss himself followed by spill the beans within 24 hours of the cell door slamming shut.

Bush initially balked because he was under the delusion that he might actually be able to push through immigration reform and salvage some legislative legacy for his fucked up from the floor up presidency. Then reality hit him upside the head as immigration reform died and was buried.

The duck was declared lame and the way for payoff-based cover-up was made clear.

Cheney called again…said that Libby might open up about the whole Bay of Pigs thing and…

Umm…wrong cover-up...my bad...blame the Sudafed (wink).

Cough.

Cheney called again…President Bush was receptive after gorging himself on lobster and corn on the cob up in Maine and he really doesn’t give a shit anymore…and the commutation was agreed upon.

Bush shat it out with some bullshit about 30 months in jail being excessive (this from a man who failed to find the penalty of death excessive for the mentally ill whilst pseudo-governing Texas) and then he added some insultingly lame ass shit about the fine being a painful punishment(you're joking right) and the loss of his law license being a heavy price (I'm gonna drown in this vat of stankified bullshit)…then a bitch is pretty sure Bush belched and then went back to his lobster.

So, here we are with Scooter Libby not going to jail, only paying a this is the cost of doing bitness in D.C. fine and not really suffering the ramifications for lying to a federal prosecutor, obstructing justice and conspiring with the executive branch to use the weapons of government to wage war against the administration's political enemies so that they could clear the way to wage war against Iraq.

What I don’t get is how anyone can truly be shocked that the same President who subverted the rule of law to go to war would subvert the rule of law to protect the people who helped him subvert the rule of law to go to war.

It’s like sitting down to chat with a dawg and then getting frustrated that all she does is bark.

Your headline sums up this whole thing better than any talking head on CNN. This lifelong Texan is proud to say that the only time he didn't vote against Bush was in his 1978 Congressional run, when I was too young to vote. I was sad when Ann Richards lost to him in 1994, but Christ, I didn't realize it was gonna get THIS bad.

Georgie is too busy on vacation being a stick in the mud at his family compound, The Bush Institute of Family Disorders, in Kennebunkport, Maine. Cheney just ordered the White House to release the executive clemency order on one of the pages that he has Georgie practice his penmanship on whenever he visits the White House.

Yes, alas, this latest bold-faced perversion has to be filed under "Dull Surprise" with the rest--and probably cross-filed to "Spine, Abject Lack of in Democrats" for good measure.

I think Libby was deliberately not pardoned outright, in order to allow him to plead the inevitable Fifth if pressed for testimony while the thieves are still in the temple; IIRC, he wouldn't've been able to do so if he'd been pardoned outright.

And for those who haven't found enough irony to savor in this particular pResident daring to characterize 30 months as "harsh" for a felony, here's a lovely little quote from then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush:

"I don’t believe my role is to replace the verdict of a jury with my own, unless there are new facts or evidence of which a jury was unaware, or evidence that the trial was somehow unfair."

Instigatrix

P.S.: Even in the face of such utter rancidity as this, Shark-fu, your intelligence, ferocity, and delightfully articulate evil humor give me hope. And that is no mean feat. F'real. So I bow down before you.

Can you even fucking stand this shit? I wonder if Victor Rita is going to be granted clemency next?

I spent the first 24 hours in a redheaded rage. Anything I would have posted in the first 24 hours, I would have been visited by the rock-jawed fellas with the wrist radios.

I'm kind of invested in this shit after filing the amicus brief in the pre-sentencing letters, after his lawyer tried the "but bloggers can be mean!" justification for quashing them. But you know, it ain't necessarily over.

There he stands Serenity's StoogeThat 'what? who me' gaze Serenity's Stooge strikes again From court stackin', Brown whackin'Serenity's Stooge has his finger on the triggerCommuting, polluting, chuckling and evading Serenity's Stooge decides it all From wars that makes us hated To political points he's traded Poor Richard, isn't so poor at all With stock ops, black ops, and laws broken galoreGeorgie Porgie, lying left and right How can you sleep with yourself at night? Serenity's Stooge, so calm in the stormFrom Gulf to Gulf, everything he touches goes wrong Privilege is yours from the executive building No matter how corrupt your crew is, The terror blanket you constantly wrap yourself in Serenity's Stooge, you should resign And take the Duke of Darkness with you, So America can shine again Serenity's Stooge exit stage far right